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Your Daily Elephant

A photographic series in the daily lives of elephants.  Large bull coming up from the Savuti River, carrying a waterline. Botswana.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill
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Your Daily Elephant

A photographic series on the daily lives of elephants.  Passing us by, lovely eye.  South Luangwa National Park, Zambia.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill
Posted in Africa, Elephants, Nature, Photography, Travel

Your Daily Elephant

A photographic series of the lives of elephants.  Bachelor male, Savuti, Botswana.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

 

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Your Daily Elephant

A continuing photographic series in the daily lives of elephants.  Bachelor bull at a waterhole, blowing bubbles.  Savuti, Botswana

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

 

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Your Daily Elephant

A continuing photographic series on the daily lives of elephants.  One of the Samburu herd female members.  A mother to the calves I posted yesterday.  Samburu, Kenya.

 

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill
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Your Daily Elephant

A continuing photographic series on the daily lives of elephants.  Samburu elephants gain their distinctive color from the reddish mud of the Ewaso Nyiro River and the region’s soil they dust over their bodies.  I originally tinkered with this photograph in black and white, but the elephant to the far left disappeared into the background.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill
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Your Daily Elephant

Continuing the photographic series on the daily lives of elephants.  I’m often amazed at the colors and depth of field on old 35 mm. film.  This photograph has such a pastoral feel to it.  Kodachrome 400, elephants in the Samburu reserve, Kenya.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

 

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Your Daily Elephant

An ongoing series on the lives of elephants.  Two relatives protecting a calf in the Samburu area of Kenya.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill

 

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Your Daily Elephant

A series on the lives of elephants.  Cow and calf eating.  Samburu area, Kenya.

 

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill
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Your Daily Elephants

An ongoing series of photographs on the lives of elephants.  Sabi Sand Game Reserve, next to Kruger National Park, South Africa.  See the gray bar on the left side of the photo?  That’s the vehicle I just parallel-parked next to this bull.  He was remarkably calm, continuing to feed with his back to us.  But I had the clutch depressed, the gearshift in drive, and my fingers twitching on the key.  Once we determined he was not at all bothered by us, I took a quick photo.  Didn’t notice the branch on his back until I got the film developed and printed.  Note the chip gone from his left tusk.  I’ll post another photograph of him tomorrow.

photograph by Cheryl Merrill
photograph by Cheryl Merrill